Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Open consultative approaches and the use of digital tools and open data have been critical to promoting and tracking the switch to sustainable procurements, as Kęstutis Kazulis, principal advisor for sustainable procurement to LPPO told us when we first wrote about the reform last year. One without the other one would have been ineffective.”

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Procurement Buyers E-procurement Public Procurement 86

How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 10, 2023

And there are attributes or properties influencing the interpretability of a model (eg clarity) for which there are no evaluation metrics (yet?). Moreover, there are different (and emerging) approaches to AI explainability, and their suitability may well be contingent upon the specific intended use or function of the explanation.

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Procurement Public Procurement Ethics Transparency 52

How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

The report stresses this issue: ‘ common or standard metrics do not yet exist within industry for the evaluation of [algorithmic systems]. The issue is further compounded by the lack of standards and metrics.

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Procurement Buyers IT Public Procurement 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For example, in the past, certain guidance documents that directly impact the MAS negotiation process (and MAS contractors) has not been made available for public review. PAP 2021-05, Evaluation of FSS Program Pricing, is one such example. FedScoop recently acquired an updated draft of the legislation, which has seen major updates.

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Price E-procurement Supply Chain Procurement 52

How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

general minimum practices Both in relation to safety- and rights-impact AI uses, the Draft AI in Government Policy would require agencies to engage in risk management both before and while using AI. Section 10.1(b) Section 10.1(b) Section 10.1(b)

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Risk Management E-procurement Procurement Evaluation 67

Government Contracts Legal Forum

APRIL 11, 2024

Required Practices for all Safety- and Rights-Impacting AI Under the risk management requirements of the Memo, before any federal agency can use a safety- or rights-impacting AI, it is required to complete an AI impact assessment. race, age, sex, etc.);

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Risk Management Impact Assessment Innovation Procurement 52

FedScoop

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The memo strongly emphasizes AI innovation, instructing agencies to build IT infrastructure to support AI, collect data to train AI and evaluate potential applications of generative AI.

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Inventory Impact Assessment Transportation Transportation 90